President Barack Obama called on police Thursday to respect demonstrators in Ferguson, Mo., in an attempt to defuse tensions after four nights of often-violent protests over the police killing of an unarmed black teenager.
Our hearts ache and our minds are confused by the violence in Gaza and Israel and the apparent rise in European anti-Semitism.
If you listen to some prominent liberal critics of Israel, you’d think that liberalism in Israel is in a deep coma.
Some 10,000 Israelis protested on Thursday in a Tel Aviv square against what they see as the failure of a five-week Gaza war to decisively halt rocket and mortar fire at southern towns bordering on the Palestinian coastal territory.
Just after the start of the initial 72-hour cease fire last week, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) encouraged residents of communities near its southern border who had left during the war to return to their homes.
North Korea fired three short-range rockets off its east coast on Thursday, South Korea\’s Ministry of Defense said, shortly before Pope Francis arrived in Seoul on his first visit to Asia.
A memorial service for fallen Lone Soldier Max Steinberg at the Saban Theatre on Aug. 12 painted the area native as both a normal young adult and a hero, one who loved having fun, formed easy connections with others and whose quest to find himself took him to the Jewish homeland.
U.S. officials denied reports of a change in the procedure through which their government supplies arms to Israel.
Israeli assassination attempts may have left him badly hurt and driven him deep underground, but Mohammed Deif, the shadowy leader of Hamas\’ armed wing in the Gaza Strip, has emerged as a mastermind of the war with Israel.
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